Henry Wessel, Jr.

Henry Wessel (actually: Henry Wessel Jr. born July 28, 1942 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA) is an American photographer.

He is regarded as one of the prominent representatives of the "New Topographic Movement" in photography. Henry Wessel lives in Richmond ( California).

Life

Born and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, Henry Wessel studied psychology at the Pennsylvania State University ( bachelor's degree ) and earned his Master of Arts in photography at the State University of New York. 1969 Wessel moved to Los Angeles. Here it turned, as he describes himself, influenced by the harsh Californian Wintry, subject to s that were hitherto somewhat hardly found photograph worth it, especially the altered by human landscape. In 1973, he the New York Museum of Modern Art from a first exhibition. In 1975 he participated in the exhibition of the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, entitled " New Topographics: Photographs of the Man - Altered Landscape" ( " New Topographies: photographs of altered by human landscape " ) part. This exhibition not only justified the name for a new photographic movement, it was also a turning point in American landscape photography. No longer does the z.T. romanticized and natural view of photographers such as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, but a sober documenting views of the city fraying edges, commercial and industrial areas of modernity was the new generation of photographers in interest. The George Eastman House curator William Jenkins presented six photographers with similar concerns and perspectives: Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel.

Henry Wessel have been devoted to a variety of exhibitions since then, many of his projects have been documented in books. In addition to the " topographical " work (eg work group "California and the West " ), dedicated to everyday urban landscapes, Wessel is among other groups of works by night shots ( Night Walk / Night walk ), architectural documentation (eg Real Estate Photographs / Immomilienfotografien ) or " Las Vegas " emerged.

Henry Wessel photographed usually with large format cameras analog ( with film ) in black and white and color.

Exhibitions

Publications

  • House Pictures. USA 1992.
  • Henry Wessel. Göttingen 2006.
  • California and the West / Odd Photos / Las Vegas / Real Estate Photographs / Night Walk; Henry Wessel. Steidl, Göttingen, 2006.
  • Waikiki. Steidl, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86930-300-0.

Exhibition catalogs

  • Thomas Zander ( eds.): Henry Wessel. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco 2007, ISBN 978-3-86521-391-4.
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